Are We Hunting and the droning darkness, onyxian loneliness of "Last Fragment"

 

"I came for love / I came for love / I found some but not enough / in the wasteland of other people's lives..."

The droning darkness, onyxian loneliness of "Last Fragment" by Are We Hunting, the imaginings of one Northern Californian songwriter, musician Ryan Ayala, feels heavy but eloquent, vast but sullied, maybe the stuff of familial or broken love trauma. I mean I am receiving this song as a mystery, as a sticky black tar Rorschach stain to peer into and see something. I love it though. The atmosphere, brooding and pained with a wonderful vocal by Ayala feels very filmic with the gravitas of a True Detective or Ari Aster's very first non horror drama.

I am feeling, appreciating, the tensions inherent in the droning horn sounds, the very seriously drawn piano chords, alien ambience and plucky acoustic guitar. Like a cold Santa Cruz fog, oppressive, glacial "Last Fragment" is something to curl up in, wrapped in a blanket and wait for the long outro that actually has glimmers of light (at least to me), remembrances of once was.

I'm out. 

-Robb Donker Curtius     

THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM 

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6ndSR6cA7Z4tDS3xZHjXJg

https://www.instagram.com/arewehunting/

https://x.com/AWehunting

https://arewehutning.bandcamp.com/

https://www.arewehunting.com/


northern california coast song writer

Are We Hunting, folk, gothic folk, alt folk, rock, psychedelic rock, storyteller, singer songwriter Ryan Ayala, dark mysterious, loneliness of "Last Fragment", filmic, brooding, Santa Cruz, California,